Showing posts with label U.N. vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.N. vote. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2022

141 for, 5 against, 34 abstentions

On the U.N. General Assembly's vote on March 2, 2022, to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine, here are the bad guys:
I think (you should excuse the expression) something is rotten in the state of Denmark, because 141 plus 5 plus 34 equals 180 nations and according to what I read today there are 193 member nations in the U.N. General Assembly.

If you don't vote for, and you don't vote against, and you don't abstain, what is left? Perhaps there were 13 nations not present at the meeting? I'm just wondering. Were they playing hookey? Home sick with a cold? Attending Grandma's funeral?

As Yul Brynner once sang in The King and I, "Is... a puzzlement!"

What think you?

The eye-catching chart appeared in the March 3, 2022, edition of the U.S. Sun.

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